momofuku
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Comment · 2 years ago
Ian Goodfellow, of the GAN fame, left Apple and rejoined Google DeepMind because of Apple’s mandatory RTO policy.
Comment · 2 years ago
I'd recommend folks read the last section of the announcement where these changes were announced [1]. The section is titled "Mission First", and I'm pretty sure the recent altercations at Google Cloud's offices over the past week [2] motivated much of the writing in this section. This seems like a stark change in how things happened at Google, and to put it explicitly in a blog was something I couldn't imagined to have happened in ~2017-2022.
[1] - https://blog.google/inside-google/company-announcements/buil...
[2] - https://www.cnbc.com/2024/04/17/google-workers-arrested-afte...
Comment · 2 years ago
Surprisingly, looks like Mark Zuckerberg is listed as a contributor in the Model Card [1]. I thought since its a pretty big effort, most executives would be added to it as well, but that does not seem to be the case at all. In fact I was surprised that Soumith Chintala was left out here [2].
[1] - https://github.com/meta-llama/llama3/blob/main/MODEL_CARD.md...
Comment · 2 years ago
Thank you for doing this! Is it hypothetically possible to switch jobs after your employer has filed for your H1-B (but before receiving approval from USCIS)? I've heard differing opinions online. I'm currently on the F1. I can potentially work for a very early startup that I'm excited by.
Thank you for doing this!
Comment · 2 years ago
It does happen occasionally. For example Justin Garrison wrote what I would consider a fairly scathing review of Amazon's HR practices related to laying people off, while he was still at Amazon: https://justingarrison.com/blog/2023-12-30-amazons-silent-sa...
He left recently, but he wrote this blog while still being employed there, as mentioned at the bottom of the post.
Comment · 2 years ago
What you're essentially asking for (especially with the toml like configuration) is SLURM + GPU cluster.
SLURM does that wrapping for you, where you essentially just point to the file that you want to run, along with some high level GPU and CPU resource allocation tags, and it just schedules and runs it for you.
I have seen some people trying to run GCP (lol) with SLURM, and wouldn't be surprised if it is possible with AWS/Lambda or any of the other cluster service providers (Cluster-as-a-service, CLaaS?).
Just through one Google search, looks like its definitely possible with AWS: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/parallelcluster/latest/ug/slurm-...
Comment · 2 years ago
Genuine question, with no malfeasance:
How successful have precious iterations of the XPrize been? IIRC, there was (is?) one for landing a rover on Mars and another for cleaning up the ocean.
Have those companies yielded tangible benefits or even spurred innovations in their respective fields?